Pawley's Island, South Carolina:
Rachel an I are on the way north, the long way around. I'll revisit the past few days to get you caught up on our adventures.
Rachel arrived in New Orleans on Sunday and toured around the French Quarter and the riverfront while awaiting our arrival. Adam has already told you some about our visit with Elvia, our source for veg in NOLA. I'll only add by saying that this was a very generous and interesting guy -- meeting him was certainly one of the highligts of our trip.
Sunday night the Vegginator crew, complete with replacement driver Rachel, went out for a celebbratory dinner in the French Quarter (yum) followed by a stroll up and down Bourbon St. The already raucus street scene was enhanced by running nto fellolw BABE celebrants every block or so. Everyone's mood fit well with the party atmosphere in the street.
Monday morning Adam left early so he could waste the day in the NOLA airport trying to get back to Boston. Meanwhile, Kent joined me and Rachel for breakfast in the hotel, then the three of us drove off for a tour of the city. The words that kept running through my head throughout the drive was "criminals in the White House." The extent of the damage from Katrina was really overwhelming. Not block by block, but mile by mile of crumbling homes, piles of debris, and FEMA trailers. There's something very wrong here.
We dropped Kent back at the hotel late morning and got to say more goodbyes to more BABEites. Then, on the road....
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